08-09 - TELE-satellite International Magazine

The Homemade IPTV Portal of the Box
IPTV Portal Movie Selection
IPTV Portal Chapter selection
Album Display of Pictures
Video data is continuously stored to provide an uninterrupted playback
IPTV via
Internet
The second operating area of
the IPDVD box is the processing
and display of video and
audio content from the Internet.
For this purpose the box
uses the Media Service Portal
from Syabas Technology.
The Media Service Portal
(MSP) is really nothing more
than a specially prepared
Internet page for set top
boxes from which every possible
media format can be
accessed. With the help of
plug-ins, all of your favorite
video/audio content can be
displayed.
A variety of these plug-ins
are ready to be used; those
more experienced users can
create their own plug-ins for
media content that is not yet
supported.
The box is shipped with several
dozen plug-ins already
included. Only those more
important and popular ones
are mentioned here:
Number one would have to
be the plug-in for the You-
Tube video portal. It lets you
use this service the way you’d
be familiar with on a PC. You
can search for videos in the
YouTube database; the most
viewed videos, the highest
rated videos and your particular
favorites are at your
fingertips.
Despite the fact that the picture
quality of YouTube videos
is better suited for viewing
on a PC and not so much on
a larger TV, we were satisfied
with the video presentation.
Recently, YouTube switched
over to better encoding and
this move certainly paid off
for them.
The Flickr and Picassa plugins
provide a connection with
their respective online services.
They give you access to
pictures from other users and
also let you upload your own
photos for your friends and
relatives to see.
Other plug-ins, for example,
give you weather information
for the entire globe or even
local traffic information.
And Podcast lovers were not
left out either; content can be
found in the plug-ins for every
possible subject. Even individual
video channels such
as Cranky Geeks or Revision
3 with up-to-date Internet
information can be found.
An interesting extra, especially
for those users outside
of the USA, is the ability to
watch TV channels such as
CNN, NBC and CBS with programs
like Larry King, Anderson
Cooper, Today Show, Meet
the Press, Face the Nation,
NBC Nightly News and CBS
News. You can even tune into
a large variety of radio programs
such as news services
from BBC, ABC or MSNBC any
time you want.
Of course, the box can also
work with every type of RSS
feed letting the user stay up
to date with current events.
If you plan on using any
other services, you can simply
expand your Media Service
Portal with additional plugins.
At the same time, a Community
page can be called up
through the IPDVD box that
lets you choose from specific
plug-ins from developers
sorted by category.
At the moment IPTV is
working very hard to start
their own video platform; it’s
already online and has quite
an array of content available.
However, for now much of this
content is geared towards
Asian viewers; eventually it
will be expanded to make it
more interesting for other
countries and continents.
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